Sending out tweets needs to be very strategic. You do not want to be sending out thirty of them and annoying people, but you want to try to reach as many people with each tweet as possible. We did an analysis of our tweets recently and found that we reached more people if we post five times a day at 6:30AM, 7:30AM, 10:30AM, 1:30PM, and 2:30PM. This has ensured ideal conditions for people to retweet, mention, and direct message us.
[Free] Social Media Ministry Assessment
This week we are giving you guys some great, exclusive, fan-only tools to do social media better within your ministry on our Facebook page. You can download them here and look for more resources to come over the next few days and weeks to come.
It is one thing to have a really good social media strategy for your strategy that you reference some of the time and try to arrange how you do ministry online and a whole other idea of reevaluating and reassessing your strategy as things change for the better. Unfortunately there are almost no social media assessments out there.
Sharing: Facebook for Mobile’s Biggest Problem Resolved
Now, I can already hear some of you saying that the lack of being able to share Facebook statuses or content is by no means Facebook for mobile’s biggest problem. But please understand that in the world of social media, being unable to share content is, well, not being very social is it?
Nothing that has ever gone viral has ever done so without being shared. Sharing is the key to sociability. And yet this key feature is ominously missing on Facebook for mobile.
But be of good cheer.
I’m here to help. [Read more…] about Sharing: Facebook for Mobile’s Biggest Problem Resolved
The Psychology of Social Networking
I’ve often thought that social media is very … well … self-centered.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think I’m exempted in any way. My Tweets, Facebook updates, Instagram’s, etc … are usually centered around one thing and one thing only: Me.
I had a friend ask once, “Tell me something that will compel me to use Twitter.” I thought it was an interesting question, as he tweeted plenty, but never retweeted or replied to others. To him, Twitter was one dimensional and he wasn’t compelled enough by what others had to say. It was all about him.
That’s a very small snapshot of what’s going on with social networking/media in general.
Here’s a closer look at the general masses:
[Free] Social Media Ministry Strategy
This week we are giving you guys some great, exclusive, fan-only tools to do social media better within your ministry on our Facebook page. You can download them here and look for more resources to come over the next few days and weeks to come.
We love to talk about social media strategies here at seventy8Productions and have talked about the general social media strategies that you could have for each social network, how to best form your social media strategy around Facebook, Pinterest, Google+ and Twitter, and what our own social media strategy is this year.
What we have not done is give you a step-by-step resource to write your own, until now.
What Should Happen to ‘Twitter Fakers?’
Have you seen those people who have 20,000 or 30,000 followers on Twitter, not know who they are, and wonder how they were able to get that many?
They may be the niche superstars like John Saddington that anyone outside of blogging circles may not know, but a better guess is that they may have many followers who are not real. A lot of the time the empty accounts are simply spam bots from marketing companies designed to promote and annoy, but unfortunately several times it is more of a case that the user being followed has bought fake users.
The infographic below can give you a better understanding of these fake accounts, but we have pulled out three great points here: